You Should Read This

You Should Read This

A business podcast hosted by Richard Atherton & Tom van der Lubbe.

Episodes

June 27, 2023 54 mins

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Tom and I review "The Tyranny of Merit", a thought-provoking book by Michael J. Sandel that challenges the prevailing notion of meritocracy and explores its unintended consequences. Sand...

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Tom and I review "The Palliative Society: Pain Today"  by Byung-Chul Han, a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts.

The...

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Tom and I review "The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy"  by David Gelles. The book exami...

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Tom and I review "4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman. The book explores the concept of time and provides insights on how to make the most of our limited time on ...

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Tom and I review "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity", a book written by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

The book challenges the traditional narratives of human history, ...

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Tom and I delve into the highly-rated 'Nazi Billionaires' by David de Jong.

The book explores the stories of wealthy German industrialists and financiers who supported and bene...

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Tom and I review one of the most influential books of 70’s, Small Is Beautiful, written by the economist E F Schumacher.

Schumacher’s central thesis is that the way we approach...

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Tom and I explore the book that gave us a new word: antifragile, things that gain from disorder.

Many consider Nassim Nicholas Taleb to be one of the greatest thinkers of his...

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Author Gary Hamel is consistently rated one of the most influential business thinkers today. In this, his latest tome, Gary argues that we should be creating organisations as a...

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Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level ...

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The study of psychological safety has become a major theme in business since Google first discovered that it was the determining factor in team performance through their famed Pr...

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Tom and I review arguably most of the influential books of the last decade: Frédéric Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations.

Laloux makes the case not that we need more enlightened l...

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Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will ...

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